The French government’s use of Article 49.3 of the constitution to force through Macron’s pension reforms without a parliamentary vote on March 16 marked a turning point in the development of the struggle. The bypassing of the National Assembly is rightly seen by large layers of the population as an insult and a provocation too far.Everyone in France…

The takeover of Credit Suisse (CS) by UBS exposes the massive instability of the global financial market. It is an expression of the rottenness of the world capitalist system. As always, while the bankers gamble away, the working class has to pay. Dersu Heri and Caspar Oertli from The Spark, the Marxist Tendency in Switzerland, explain that expropriation…

A new episode of Socialist Revolution Podcast is now on air:In this episode, comrades Erica L and Josh Bennett talk about piracy, poverty, and why it’s so difficult to make it as an artist under capitalism. Above all, they explore who is to blame for these problems, and how they can be addressed in a socialist society.Read the article on this topic…

The following document was passed at a meeting of the international leadership of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) at the start of February, for discussion at the coming 2023 IMT World Congress. In it, the main trends are analyzed that are shaping world politics and the class struggle in this dramatic period of capitalism’s death agony.We…

The plot thickens! A month after acclaimed American journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report, accusing the CIA of masterminding the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany last year, two articles simultaneously appeared in major US and German news publications linking Ukraine to the attack. Not only that, but…

Promoted by some activists as a means of combating oppression, identity politics is increasingly being used by the establishment to attack the left and the labor movement. Socialist Appeal, the Marxist Tendency in Britain, explains that workers and youth must fight back with revolutionary class struggle.With the coronation of Rishi Sunak as prime minister, right-wing…

As we celebrate International Working Women’s Day, Wellred Books is publishing a new book, Women, Family, and the Russian Revolution by John Peter Roberts and Fred Weston. Why publish a Marxist book on women and the Russian Revolution in the year 2023? The answer is that, more than 100 years after the Russian Revolution, we are still very far from…

This week’s episode of International Marxist Radio welcomes Ylva Vinberg, leading comrade of Revolution, the Swedish section of the International Marxist Tendency, and Fred Weston, co-author of Wellred Books’ latest publication, Women, Family and the Russian Revolution—available to pre-order now! To mark International Working Women’s Day…

 Donate now to fund the forces of revolutionary socialism in the US:In the fall of 2022, over 300 revolutionary socialists registered to attend the 2022 Marxist Schools in cities across the US. These regional events, hosted by Socialist Revolution branches in Phoenix, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York City, and Bellingham, WA, brought together comrades…

Editorial for issue 38 of Socialist Revolution magazine. Subscribe now to get your copy!According to Donald Trump, he was brilliantly accurate when he predicted in 2019 that “America will never be a socialist country.” Why? Because, as he stated a few weeks ago, “the train didn’t stop at the socialist station… We hit the Marxist station and…

On February 28, voters in Chicago will go to the polls to vote for the next mayor, their local aldermen, and members of the newly-created police District Councils. They will go to the polls again on April 4 to vote in the runoff between the two top candidates in each district. These local elections will be the first since the beginning of the pandemic…

The 2023 general election, which commences on Saturday, February 25, must be seen against the backdrop of the magnificent youth movement of 2020, known as EndSARS (referring to the infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS unit of the Nigerian police). This was a highly significant development in Nigerian politics. It terrorized the ruling elite…

On September 26, 2022, news broke of explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany. The blasts rendered three of the four lines inoperable, and released vast quantities of gas into the Baltic Sea. Ukrainian and Western politicians immediately blamed “Russian sabotage”: a claim that was repeated verbatim…

In early February of 2023, citizens of the United States—”land of the free and home of the brave”—are told that they have a new menace to fear. Is it a nuclear-armed stealth drone? A killer robot that invades your home? Or a cyber attack that takes away your savings and steals your identity? The truth is far more terrifying: a balloon from China! For…

Social media has been alight with the figurative and literal fallout of a disaster arising from a train derailment in Ohio on February 3. The train, carrying industrial chemicals, derailed 50 miles north of Pittsburgh in the small town of East Palestine, home to roughly 5,000 people. The wreckage precipitated an explosion of hazardous materials, unleashing…

A new episode of Socialist Revolution Podcast is now on air:PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 Commonly referred to as the Finnish Civil War, the Finnish Revolution of 1917–18 is a proud chapter in the history of the international working class. Tragically, despite the tremendous energy expended by the masses, the forces of counterrevolution defeated the working…

The American Civil War is an event of world-historic significance. This revolutionary war, which consumed US society for four long and bloody years, overthrew slavery as a mode of exploitation and laid the ground for the rapid development of US capitalism. This episode in the class struggle graphically demonstrated the dynamics of revolution, and should…

A new episode of Socialist Revolution Podcast is now on air:PART 1 | PART 2 Commonly referred to as the Finnish Civil War, the Finnish Revolution of 1917–18 is a proud chapter in the history of the international working class. Tragically, despite the tremendous energy expended by the masses, the forces of counterrevolution defeated the working class…

We are very happy to share the recollections of a member of our French organization (Révolution), who was born in Moscow in the 1960s, and later moved to Paris, joining the PCF (Communist Party of France) and eventually the IMT. There, he discovered Trotsky’s writings, which accurately reflected the comrade’s experiences of the bureaucratic regime…

February 1 was the biggest day of coordinated strike action in over a decade, with half a million out on strike. We spoke to workers at picket lines and demos up and down the country about their fight against the bosses’ attacks and the Tories’ anti-union bill.On Wednesday, February 1, half-a-million workers across Britain were out on strike. This…

A new episode of Socialist Revolution Podcast is now on air:PART 1 Commonly referred to as the Finnish Civil War, the Finnish Revolution of 1917–18 is a proud chapter in the history of the international working class. Tragically, despite the tremendous energy expended by the masses, the forces of counterrevolution defeated the working class and drained…

Outrage at police violence has erupted once again across the United States. Protests began in Memphis on Friday, January 27, following the release of video showing the barbaric and fatal police beating of 29-year-old photographer and FedEx worker, Tyre Nichols. The protests then spread to at least 38 cities nationwide.Five cops dragged Nichols from…

The global elites gathered in Davos last week to discuss the fate and future of capitalism. With the world economy wracked by inflation and instability, a mood of pessimism prevailed. We need a revolution to put them out of their misery.The great and the good congregated in Switzerland last week for the latest meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF)—a…

The compounding crises of capitalism weigh particularly heavily on the youngest generations, who must contend with falling living standards, the existential threat of climate change, a mental health crisis, student debt crisis, and myriad other disasters and catastrophes. No wonder millions of young people in the US are beginning to draw revolutionary…

More than a million people were on the streets of France last week at over 200 rallies, as part of a national strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attack on pensions. Workers from the railways, the Paris transport system, oil refineries, and the media; along with teachers, civil servants, truck drivers and bank staff all walked out in…